Egosoft is extremely pleased to finally announce the release of X Rebirth 2.0 – Secret Service Missions. After considerable effort and with an eye to all the great feedback we’ve received, X Rebirth 2.0 represents a major update for a wide variety of gameplay mechanics. Together with the new plot chain, which offers all players membership in the Argon Federation secret service, X Rebirth 2.0 brings a host of new features and improvements including:

New playership modifications allowing for different cockpit configurations for special purposes.

Two new configurable radar modes for the event monitor

An autopilot for your playership

Several new commands for ships in your squad, permitting much finer control over their actions.

A massive overhaul of the game’s balancing, as well as the introduction of three difficulty levels, and achievements for the new difficulty level "hard.”

Multiple new gamestarts in different areas of the universe specially tailored for traders, builders or fighters

A set of beautiful new capital ships which are especially useful for trading in Omicron Lyrae

An overhauled visual look and feel resulting from improved shaders and soft shadows

Lots of UI and menu improvements

Ability to deal remotely with lots of NPCs without the need to land on stations

Redesigned highway gameplay

Better support for joysticks

X Rebirth 2.0 - Secret Service Missions will be released on May 20th 2014 on the Steam digital distribution platform, and is available as a free update to all our customers.

About EGOSOFTEGOSOFT, founded in 1990, is one of Germany’s leading game developers. Its team of industry veterans and dedicated game enthusiasts entered the international stage with the widely-acclaimed X-Beyond the Frontier space simulation game in 1999. EGOSOFT is now exclusively dedicated to setting new standards in the space game genre and continuing to improve the gameplay experience for fans of the X Universe. For more information on EGOSOFT and its products visit http://www.egosoft.com.

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